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A book is solitude, privacy; it is a way of holding the self apart from the crush of the outer world.
— Sven Birkerts
Language is the soul's ozone layer and we thin it at our peril.
— Sven Birkerts
I read books to read myself.
— Sven Birkerts
Where am I when I am involved in a book?
— Sven Birkerts
Heroes come and go, but legends are forever.
— Kobe Bryant
If literature survives at all, it is as retreat for those who refuse to assimilate to American mass culture.
— Sven Birkerts
A poem is a construction of inner space. Language is to inner space as light is to material space. — Sven Birkerts
If anything has changed about my reading over the years, it is that I value the state a book puts me in more that I value the specific contents.
— Sven Birkerts
Too much ends in smoke.
— Toba Beta
People don't go to the movies to get the news, people don't go to the movies to learn a lesson. People go to the movie to get an emotional experience.
— Michael Shannon
The books that matter to me ... are those that galvanize something inside me. I read books to read myself.
— Sven Birkerts
Do good even if no one is watching you and do it as if everyone is watching you.
— Israelmore Ayivor